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[ . . . ] There is, however, a point to which I would like to draw your attention, and that is the undeniable success of our agricultural colonization, particularly our oldest effort, colonization in…
- To perform their work in the workshop for three complete years from the day of their entry, not to cease at all during this tenure, and not to be hired by another artisan, neither as an apprentice nor…
“Consummatum est!” I could exclaim on January 1, 1876.The minister [Jozsef Eötvös] frivolously deceived me. His promise turned out to be a premeditated lie. Scorn and sarcasm were his response when I…
Laboring women, suffering women
Women who languish in factory and home—
Why stand at a distance, why build not our temple
Of humanity’s joy, and of freedom sublime?
Help us to bear the red banner…
As soon as [Opotowski] came, he and the others were told that their chances of securing employment in a region where there are few Jews will be much better if they do not have such long beards. He and…
This detailed bilingual Hebrew-Yiddish register kept by Roza, a Jewish midwife in the Jewish community of the Dutch city of Groningen in the years from 1794 to 1832, provides basic information about…
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.
—Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a…
When the leaders of the people were assembled, all the tribes of Israel together, on the evening of the twenty-first day of Adar 5572, to oversee the affairs of the general community and the needs of…
Mel:I’m not having an anxiety attack. I’m a little tense.Edna:Why don’t you take a Valium?Mel:I took one.Edna:Then take another one.Mel:I took another one. They don’t work any more. [He sits down…
Title page of the first known printed version of the Ku-bukh (Cow Book), a sixteenth-century collection of Yiddish fables, published in Verona, Italy in 1595. The later compendium of Yiddish stories…
